TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Former FAMU journalism professor and athletics director Roosevelt Wilson has passed away at 78.FAMU officials say Wilson passed away on Sunday.
Officials say Wilson was known among the FAMU community as a “fair and principled” man, teacher, mentor, businessman, administrator and writer, whose command of the English language and principles of journalism was admired nationally.
“I extend condolences to Professor Wilson’s family, loved ones and many friends,” said FAMU President Larry Robinson, Ph.D. “He devoted himself to telling the stories of great Rattlers, and he will be included among those great Rattlers.”
Wilson, a native of Bunnell, came to FAMU in 1969 as the director of sports information, moved to director of university publications in 1979, before returning to athletics in the summer of 1980 as director of athletics under then-president Walter L. Smith, Jr., Ph.D.
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